17 volumes : 25 cm

"In the 1880s, the aging Browning showed once again the remarkable versatility of his lyric and narrative talents. Ranging across eras and cultures, the books here reveal his late thoughts about history, myth, legend, faith, love, and desire. He had never been more popular, and the founding of the Browning Society in 1881 expanded both his audience and his sense of his place in English letters. The first title in Volume XV is Dramatic Idylls, Second Series (1880). Taking his subjects from classical history, colonial India, Arabian legend, medieval sorcery, Jewish folk tales, and Greek myth, Browning startles the reader with the rapidity of his thought and the inventiveness of his art. In Jocoseria (1883) Browning's subjects range across time and space from Hebraic legend to the England of the Romantics. Such variety helped attract new readers: Jocoseria was immediately successful, and a second edition was printed in the same year as the first. Although Browning's next volume, Ferishtah's Fancies (1884), was so popular that three editions were printed in less than two years, this artful string of anecdotes and lyrics has attracted little favorable criticism. The materials--Persian legends and Arabic backgrounds--chimed with the wildly popular Orientalism of FitzGerald's Rubáiyát, Whistler's Peacock Room, and Alma-Tadema's paintings. But the thought was pure Browning in his most optimistic vein, and not at all in tune with the growing pessimism of the day. As always in this series of critical editions, a complete record of textual variants is provided, as well as extensive explanatory notes."--Publisher's description

Vol. 6: Edited by John C. Berkey, Allan C. Dooley, Susan E. Dooley

Vol. 7-8: General editor, Jack W. Herring

Vol. 10: Edited by Allan C. Dooley, Susan E. Dooley

Vol. 11: Edited by Michael Bright

Vol. 12: Edited by Rita S. Patteson, Paul D.L. Turner

Vol. 13: Edited by Ashby Bland Crowder

Vol. 14: Edited by John C. Berkey [and others]

Vol. 15: Edited by Allan C. Dooley, David Ewbank

Vol. 16: Edited by Susan Crowl, Roma A. King, Jr

Vol. 17: Edited by Ashby Bland Crowder, Allan C. Dooley

Volumes 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 17 have imprint: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press

Volumes 9, 11, 13, 15-16 have imprint: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

v. 1. Pauline. Sonnet: Eyes calm beside thee. Paracelsus -- v. 2. Strafford. Sordello -- v. 3. Pippa passes. King Victor and King Charles. Essay on Chatterton. Dramatic lyrics. The return of the Druses -- v. 4. A blot in the 'scutcheon. Colombe's birthday. Dramatic romances and lyrics. Luria -- v. 5. Souls tragedy. Poems. Christmas-eve and easter-day. Essay on Shelley. Men and women -- v. 6. Men and women, volume II. Ben Karshook's wisdom. Last poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1862). The Greek Christian poets and the English poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1863). Poetical works (1863 and 1865). Eurydice to Orpheus; a picture by Leighton. Dramatis personae. A selection from the works of Robert Browning (1865). A selection from the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1866). Poetical works (1868 and 1870). Deaf and dumb. Editorial notes. Cumulative index of titles -- v. 7-9. The ring and the book -- v. 10. Balaustion's adventure; including a transcript from Euripides. Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society

v. 11. Fifine at the fair. Red cotton night-cap country. Editorial notes -- v. 12. Aristophanes' Apology; including a transcript from Euripides; being the Last Adventure of Balaustion -- v. 13. The inn album. Other poems. Editorial notes -- v. 14. The Agamemnon of Æschylus. La Saisiaz and the two poets of Croisic. Dramatic Idyls, first series. Editorial notes -- v. 15. Dramatic Idyls, second series. Jocoseria. Ferishtah's fancies. Editorial notes -- v. 16. Parleyings with certain people of importance in their day. Apolloo and the Fates--A Prologue. With Bernard de Mandeville. With Daniel Bartoli. With Christopher Smart. With George Bubb Dodington. With Francis Furini. With Gerard de Lairesse. With Charles Avison. Fust and His Friends--An Epilogue. Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1887). Prefatory Note. Poetical works (1888-89). Title page. Dedication. Contents -- v. 17. Asolando. Unpublished or uncollected poems. Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford. Index of titles, volumes 1 -- 17

"In the 1880s, the aging Browning showed once again the remarkable versatility of his lyric and narrative talents. Ranging across eras and cultures, the books here reveal his late thoughts about history, myth, legend, faith, love, and desire. He had never been more popular, and the founding of the Browning Society in 1881 expanded both his audience and his sense of his place in English letters. The first title in Volume XV is Dramatic Idylls, Second Series (1880). Taking his subjects from classical history, colonial India, Arabian legend, medieval sorcery, Jewish folk tales, and Greek myth, Browning startles the reader with the rapidity of his thought and the inventiveness of his art. In Jocoseria (1883) Browning's subjects range across time and space from Hebraic legend to the England of the Romantics. Such variety helped attract new readers: Jocoseria was immediately successful, and a second edition was printed in the same year as the first. Although Browning's next volume, Ferishtah's Fancies (1884), was so popular that three editions were printed in less than two years, this artful string of anecdotes and lyrics has attracted little favorable criticism. The materials--Persian legends and Arabic backgrounds--chimed with the wildly popular Orientalism of FitzGerald's Rubaiyat, Whistler's Peacock Room, and Alma-Tadema's paintings. But the thought was pure Browning in his most optimistic vein, and not at all in tune with the growing pessimism of the day. As always in this series of critical editions, a complete record of textual variants is provided, as well as extensive explanatory notes."--Publisher's description

v. 11. Fifine at the fair. Red cotton night-cap country. Editorial notes -- v. 12. Aristophanes' Apology; including a transcript from Euripides; being the Last Adventure of Balaustion -- v. 13. The inn album. Other poems. Editorial notes -- v. 14. The Agamemnon of ©schylus. La Saisiaz and the two poets of Croisic. Dramatic Idyls, first series. Editorial notes -- v. 15. Dramatic Idyls, second series. Jocoseria. Ferishtah's fancies. Editorial notes -- v. 16. Parleyings with certain people of importance in their day. Apolloo and the Fates--A Prologue. With Bernard de Mandeville. With Daniel Bartoli. With Christopher Smart. With George Bubb Dodington. With Francis Furini. With Gerard de Lairesse. With Charles Avison. Fust and His Friends--An Epilogue. Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1887). Prefatory Note. Poetical works (1888-89). Title page. Dedication. Contents -- v. 17. Asolando. Unpublished or uncollected poems. Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford. Index of titles, volumes 1 -- 17

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